Pvt. Cyrus Yancey

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104608428/cyrus-yancey

United States Marine. Awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded in action. Gravely wounded and barely made it out alive.

Cyrus is quoted as follows: "at the time of the World War [I was sent] overseas in January 1918 and was on the Verdun Front. When being removed from the front after the fighting at Belleau Woods I was wounded June 1918 - a piece of shrapnel going through my abdomen and right hand. When the soldier came along and found me alive they took me to the field hospital and then on to the base hospital where they found that practically all of my stomach had been shot away and had no hopes of my recovery.. . . I was in the hospital for nearly nine months undergoing three major operations.

Cyrus suffered medical problems throughout his life because of his war injuries.